Atonement for a ‘Sinless’ Society: Engaging with an Emerging Culture (Biblia.com)

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How can Christians communicate the meaning of the atonement in a society which has little sense of sin left? “Sin doesn’t really exist as a serious idea in modern life, wrote the journalist Bryan Appleyard. He is not alone in his views. Sin has become just as tainted, polluted and defiled in the postmodern mind as the word itself indicates. Atonement for a Sinless Society is...

but it is also a risky one. For ‘the problem with atonement theologies is that they are sometimes so perceptive and brilliant that they last beyond their appropriate time—and, at the same time, they are perpetuated longer than should be because too few Christians have the courage to enter into the new, emerging darkness and prefer to rely on the old light of entrenched soteriologies’.4 This, of course, leads simply to the following questions. What is our time? How do postmodern, post-industrialized,

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